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Karen Murphy - ECJ Judgement Due/Delivered
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<blockquote data-quote="newtolinux" data-source="post: 789929" data-attributes="member: 381966"><p>Been a while since any more info on this one. However through the grapevine S.R leisure LTD who were involved during the european case process have gone back to a sky commercial subscription in all pubs as advised by their solicitors after the high court ruling on 3rd feb.I am guessing their solicitors were smithfiled and partners also. The copyright issue seems complex and feel sorry for the publicans who will end up back in court over a logo etc. However as previousely stated by others this new tactic has undermined the whole european process; but the FAPL are the IP owners of there works so i guess they can do what the hell they want. The only good thing to come out the whole process is that it is now longer criminal to buy a eu decoder and viewing card. But this won't help anyone !!!!! It's not illegal anymore but i telephoned NOVA, SKY ITALIA , SKY GERMANY , SETANTA etc etc and not one would sell to the UK. So the middlemen as before will be the ones inflating prices on foreign cards to us public making the foreign alternative at home not really any cheaper than sky. I saw an advert for viasat latvia package where some company was selling for £1500 ( 2 year sub ), I visited the viasat latvia website only to find that the contract for 2 years with a free receiver only amounts to about £500. Yes the ECJ said trade cannot be resticted between EU member states but it didn't say the foreign providers had to sell outside of there national territories !!!!!! The broadcasters surely will be all working together on this behind the scenes and reached an amicable gentlemens agreement. On a final note only thing this whole process has achieved is the now non criminality of using an EU decoder and card to watch TV !!! A farse really for a case that has been dragging some 5 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="newtolinux, post: 789929, member: 381966"] Been a while since any more info on this one. However through the grapevine S.R leisure LTD who were involved during the european case process have gone back to a sky commercial subscription in all pubs as advised by their solicitors after the high court ruling on 3rd feb.I am guessing their solicitors were smithfiled and partners also. The copyright issue seems complex and feel sorry for the publicans who will end up back in court over a logo etc. However as previousely stated by others this new tactic has undermined the whole european process; but the FAPL are the IP owners of there works so i guess they can do what the hell they want. The only good thing to come out the whole process is that it is now longer criminal to buy a eu decoder and viewing card. But this won't help anyone !!!!! It's not illegal anymore but i telephoned NOVA, SKY ITALIA , SKY GERMANY , SETANTA etc etc and not one would sell to the UK. So the middlemen as before will be the ones inflating prices on foreign cards to us public making the foreign alternative at home not really any cheaper than sky. I saw an advert for viasat latvia package where some company was selling for £1500 ( 2 year sub ), I visited the viasat latvia website only to find that the contract for 2 years with a free receiver only amounts to about £500. Yes the ECJ said trade cannot be resticted between EU member states but it didn't say the foreign providers had to sell outside of there national territories !!!!!! The broadcasters surely will be all working together on this behind the scenes and reached an amicable gentlemens agreement. On a final note only thing this whole process has achieved is the now non criminality of using an EU decoder and card to watch TV !!! A farse really for a case that has been dragging some 5 years. [/QUOTE]
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